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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
References
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Celestina Longine Banzi

Dar es salaam

Summary

Professional with strong background in leadership and team management. Proven track record in driving results and ensuring team collaboration. Skilled in strategic planning, problem-solving, and adapting to dynamic environments. Known for reliability, effective communication, and delivering high-quality outcomes.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Manager: Digital Channel Products & Applications – Quality Assurance & Reporting

Exim Bank (T) LTD
05.2023 - Current

Projects and Achievements

  • Retail Online Banking Implementation
  • Corporate Online Banking implementation
  • Online Account Opening
  • Integration of Card Services with Digital channels


Detailed Tasks Assigned

  • Implementing and overseeing the quality assurance testing on the digital department’s day to day activities
  • Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
  • Handle the tasks of gathering technical and functional specifications of the application to provide effective support in testing procedures.
  • To ensure compliance with procedures and policies, regulatory requirements and the delivery of quality and customer centric outcomes based on business requirement.
  • Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases, plan, process, and policy for quality product checking.
  • Responsible for testing the modules and component parts of the application to ensure that it functions properly.
  • Assigned responsibilities of identifying unexpected issues after the integration of new modules in the application
  • Create tracker and maintain all product development life circle and status report to line manager as per best practice.
  • Publishing the test, UAT, PILOT, status report on regular basis as required (daily, weekly, monthly) for all Digital products and secure approval to carry on next step process.
  • Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.

Digital Products and Project Specialist

Exim Bank (T) LTD
01.2021 - 05.2023

Projects and Achievements

  • Implementation of GEPG payment at branch and online platform
  • Support to Exim Bank subsidiaries in implementing Digital Products


Detailed Tasks Assigned

  • Identify revenue leakages and develop mitigation.
  • Monitor daily operations of digital banking products for efficient and high-quality service to customers.
  • Monitor daily transactions of digital banking products to meet customer expectations with our digital products.
  • Participate in review and implementation of new Core Banking System
  • Drive project profitability within assigned budget and timelines.
  • Implementation of plans for the business support along with service delivery across the branches and corporate office
  • Testing and quality assurance for key digital projects and ensure successful transition to production.

Digital Products and Application Support

Exim Bank (T) LTD
09.2017 - 01.2021

Projects and Achievements

  • ATM look and Feel Transformation Project – Enhance ATM screens flow.


Detailed Tasks Assigned

  • Prepare and monitor digital products performance report daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly.
  • Provide technical guidance and training to co-workers.
  • To implement/enhance existing and new digital products.
  • Enhance utilization of all digital channels by identify areas for improvement.
  • To provide ongoing technical support on digital products and applications complaints and resolution
  • Manage vendors to ensure projects and queries are resolved as per agreed SLAs, TATs, and RCAs.

Customer Service Representative

Exim Bank (T) LTD
06.2015 - 09.2017

Projects Assigned

  • Cross Selling Bank products (POS, Online Banking, Junior Account)
  • Inbound and outbound call support for customers


Detailed Tasks Assigned

  • Build customer’s interest in the service and products offered by the company.
  • Handling complaints and troubleshoot problems.
  • Provide personalized customer service of the highest level.
  • To cross sell the products and service through telemarketing.
  • To do campaigns on new or existing products and services to push sells.
  • To prepare daily/monthly and yearly reports for customer service department.

Acting Administration and Operations Officer

GrandTech (T) Limited
10.2012 - 12.2015

Projects Assigned

  • Prepare Organization structure.
  • NSSF registration
  • Employees details documentation


Detailed Tasks Assigned

  • Documents financial transactions by entering account information.
  • Summarizes current financial status by collecting information, preparing profit and loss statement and other reports.
  • Prepares payments by verifying documentation and requesting disbursements.
  • Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
  • Prepares accounting records.
  • Develop, maintain, and analyse budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
  • Prepare payroll.
  • Maintains the work structure by updating job requirements and job descriptions for all positions.
  • Maintains historical human resource records by preparing employees contracts, keeping records of each employee.
  • Prepare company’s organization structure.
  • To advice the top management on the issues concerning employees and projects.
  • To plan, direct and manage daily office operations.
  • To assist the general administration with a company.

Education

MBA - Corporate Management

Mzumbe University
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
12-2024

Bachelor of Arts - Public Relations and Marketing

St. Augustine University of Tanzania
Mwanza, Tanzania
07-2014

ACSE - Advance Certificate For Secondary Education

Songea Girls Secondary School
Songea, Tanzania
02-2011

CSEE - Secondary Education

Bigwa Sisters Seminar School
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
10-2008

Primary Certificate - Primary Education

Mtendeni Primary School
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
01.2004

Skills

  • Customer service
  • Project management
  • Team leadership
  • Decision-making

Certification

  • 2017, Empower Limited, Certificate of Participation: Sales Transformation Programme
  • 2017, Exim Bank (T) Limited, Certificate of Training Completion: The Power of Performance Ladder I
  • 2019, Exim Bank (T) Limited, Certificate of Completion: Personal Development Program Enhance Potential for Peak Performance
  • 2023, Bank of Tanzania, Certificate of Attending Course: Payment System TIPs
  • 2024, Copenhagen Business School, Certificate of Digital Competition in Financial Service
  • 2024, Copenhagen Business School, Certificate of Fintech and Transformation in Financial Services

References

  • Elisha Twisa, Businessman, Businessman, twisaerick@gmail.com, (+255) 784 544 148, 10, Relative
  • Ramadhani Mmbaga, Exim Bank, Senior Manager, ramadhanimm@eximbank.co.tz, +255 714 247 506, 6, Line Manager
  • Audax Robert, Exim Bank, Assistant Manager, robertaudax96@gmail.com, +255 759 654 627, 6, Work Colleague

Timeline

Assistant Manager: Digital Channel Products & Applications – Quality Assurance & Reporting

Exim Bank (T) LTD
05.2023 - Current

Digital Products and Project Specialist

Exim Bank (T) LTD
01.2021 - 05.2023

Digital Products and Application Support

Exim Bank (T) LTD
09.2017 - 01.2021

Customer Service Representative

Exim Bank (T) LTD
06.2015 - 09.2017

Acting Administration and Operations Officer

GrandTech (T) Limited
10.2012 - 12.2015

MBA - Corporate Management

Mzumbe University

Bachelor of Arts - Public Relations and Marketing

St. Augustine University of Tanzania

ACSE - Advance Certificate For Secondary Education

Songea Girls Secondary School

CSEE - Secondary Education

Bigwa Sisters Seminar School

Primary Certificate - Primary Education

Mtendeni Primary School
Celestina Longine Banzi